The Classic Myths in English Literature: Based Chiefly on Bulfinch's "Age of Fable". (1855).Charles Mills Gayley |
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... practices and adventures . These contradic- tory elements have been called the reasonable and the senseless . A myth of Mother Earth ( Demeter ) mourning the ORIGIN AND ELEMENTS OF MYTH . 5 Divisions of Inquiry Elements of Myth.
... practices and adventures . These contradic- tory elements have been called the reasonable and the senseless . A myth of Mother Earth ( Demeter ) mourning the ORIGIN AND ELEMENTS OF MYTH . 5 Divisions of Inquiry Elements of Myth.
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... Mother Earth ( Demeter ) mourning the loss of her daughter , the Springtide , is reasonable ; a myth of Demeter devouring , in a fit of abstraction , the shoulder of the boy Pelops , and replacing it with ivory , is capricious ...
... Mother Earth ( Demeter ) mourning the loss of her daughter , the Springtide , is reasonable ; a myth of Demeter devouring , in a fit of abstraction , the shoulder of the boy Pelops , and replacing it with ivory , is capricious ...
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... mother coun- 1 Benfey and Cosquin . See Lang's Myth , Ritual , and Religion , II . 299 . try . But , although some historical myths may have DISTRIBUTION OF MYTHS . 19 —THE DISTRIBUTION OF MYTHS 19-21 Principal Theories.
... mother coun- 1 Benfey and Cosquin . See Lang's Myth , Ritual , and Religion , II . 299 . try . But , although some historical myths may have DISTRIBUTION OF MYTHS . 19 —THE DISTRIBUTION OF MYTHS 19-21 Principal Theories.
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... mother race , it has already been demonstrated ( § 7. 1 ) that the historical ( Euhemeristic ) hypothesis is inadequate . It is , more- over , not likely that many historical incidents like those related in the Iliad and the Odyssey ...
... mother race , it has already been demonstrated ( § 7. 1 ) that the historical ( Euhemeristic ) hypothesis is inadequate . It is , more- over , not likely that many historical incidents like those related in the Iliad and the Odyssey ...
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... Mother Earth , from whom , according to the lay in which the word first occurs , the earliest race of mankind sprang , 3 - or as the point or head of Norse poetry , or as a tale concerned with death , or as derived from Odde , the home ...
... Mother Earth , from whom , according to the lay in which the word first occurs , the earliest race of mankind sprang , 3 - or as the point or head of Norse poetry , or as a tale concerned with death , or as derived from Odde , the home ...
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